TIME OUT GALLERY

Words and images to calm

the mind and uplift the heart...

The best everyday mind/ body medicine is a simple 'time out'- how often we forget to stop for a break, to unwind a little and benefit from the wonders of simple relaxation. Even five minutes can work minor miracles!

Enjoy a slow scroll through the gallery ( ideally with a cuppa!) The specially chosen quotes and pictures might keep you absorbed for a while, and if any of them particularly resonate with you, spend a little longer there...

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

— Aaron Rose

You have the answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it.

— Pat Obuchowski

Remember, we all stumble. Every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.

— Emily Kimbrough

The imagination is a palette of bright colours. You can use it to touch up memories - or you can use it to paint dreams.

— Robert Brault

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky

— Rabindranath Tagore

The heart has it’s reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things.

— Blaise Pascal

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

— Gabrielle Roth

Deep in our hearts, we hid our peace and innocence, that we might rediscover it someday.

— Anon

 One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality

— Albert Einstein

Dignity is not holding your head up high, but knowing how to bow to life with strength and grace.

— Anon

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not

— Hanoch McCarty

Pleasure is spread through the earth, in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find

— William Wordsworth

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

— Raymond Inmon

I perhaps owe having become a painter, to flowers

— Claude Monet

I never saw a thing that looked more like a soul, than a butterfly

— Anon

A hug is an amazing thingIt’s just the perfect wayTo show the love we’re feelingBut can’t find the words to say

— Johnny Ray Ryder, Jnr.

If there were no flowers, and then suddenly there were flowers, we would all be standing and staring at them with wide eyes and opened hearts and proclaiming it a miracle

— Joy Leibling

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own Being.

— Hafez

He who knows others is learned,He who knows himself is wise.

— Lao-tzu

There is a morning inside you, waiting to burst open into light.

— Rumi

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You’ve been walking the ocean’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!

— Rumi

Solitude coaxes magical things from our souls.

— Terri Guillemets

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

— Henry Miller

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

— Robert Wagner

Be there to greet the dawn and you will find peace.

— Anon

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

— Pearl Bailey

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

— Henry David Thoreau

You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.